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2-7, Bridge Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3829 / 51°22'58"N

Longitude: -2.3588 / 2°21'31"W

OS Eastings: 375128

OS Northings: 164932

OS Grid: ST751649

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.BGJ

Mapcode Global: VH96M.2HCQ

Plus Code: 9C3V9JMR+5F

Entry Name: 2-7, Bridge Street

Listing Date: 12 June 1950

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1394953

English Heritage Legacy ID: 510369

ID on this website: 101394953

Location: Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bath

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Church of England Parish: Bath St Michael Without

Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells

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Description


BRIDGE STREET
(North side)

Nos.2-7 (Consec)
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET (North side)
Nos 1-6 (consec), No.7, Nos 8 and 9)
12/06/50

GV II

Shops with accommodation over. c1775, with late C19 and C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs.
PLAN: Double depth, some with rear extensions.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics and cellars, three window fronts, stepped down the hill in pairs. Ground floor shopfronts, No.2 is 1922, by A.J. Taylor; No.3 is c1923; No.4 is c1923, by W.A. Williams; No.5 is late C19 or early C20; No.6 is mid C20 one, and No.7 has good early C19 shopfront of three bays with central door and entrance to house above to right. Shopfront has fluted Corinthian half columns, stallrisers, six panelled door, plate glass windows, single pane. Six panel door to right, rectangular light over with margin glazing. All windows have architraves, those to first floor with cornice heads. Second floor of No.3 and first floor of Nos 4 and 5 have six/six sashes, all others are late C19 plain plate glass sashes, except No.2, which has cut off first floor windows and two/two second floor sashes. Cornice, parapet, mansard roof, each house has a paired flat topped dormer, six/six sashes to No.3 only, stone stacks, all with pots.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Nos 5, 6 and 7 can be seen in Thomas Malton's View of Pulteney Bridge from Spring Gardens, 1788. Bridge Street was cut through from the High Street following the Council's approval of the construction of Pulteney Bridge (qv) in 1769. Nos 1-6 (consec) were listed on 11th August 1972.
SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948), 65; G. Finch, Shopfront Record, Bath City Council (1992).

Listing NGR: ST7512864932

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